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Speaker 1: They say history is written by the victors, but you

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Speaker 1: know what they left out a hell of a lot

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Speaker 1: of juicy stuff. Take Abe Lincoln's assassination. Did you know

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Speaker 1: a young couple was sitting right next to him when

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Speaker 1: he was shot. It haunted the husband so much he

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Speaker 1: later murdered his wife. Ah, we all know who invented that, right,

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Speaker 1: and we'll think again. Truth is Alexander Graham Bell stole

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Speaker 1: the idea for the telephone and then claimed it as

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Speaker 1: his own. And how about those cheeky early Olympians who

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Speaker 1: were a sort of uniform that thrilled audiences. In fact,

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Speaker 1: it was their birthday suit. Yeah, totally in the nude.

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Speaker 1: I'm Patty Steele. So behind every big story are fascinating

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Speaker 1: smaller backstories that are going to leave you saying no way.

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Speaker 1: Like Teddy Roosevelt's wild daughter, whose celebrity status rivaled that

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Speaker 1: of the Kardashians easily, and just for the thrill of it,

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Speaker 1: she kept a dagger and a pet snake in her purse.

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Speaker 1: Or what about bathing machines. They were these like sort

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Speaker 1: of cabanas on wheels where women changed into their big,

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Speaker 1: old bulky bathing suits from back in the day and

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Speaker 1: then they were pulled directly into the water in the cabana,

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Speaker 1: where they stepped into the sea, privately shielding them from

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Speaker 1: male gazes on the beach. Or what about the seven

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Speaker 1: murders committed at the home of the world famous architect

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Speaker 1: Frank Lloyd Wright. For every pivotal moment in history, there's

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Speaker 1: always a backstory, and it's usually way more interesting than

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Speaker 1: the big story. From mysterious murders to the baffling sleep

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Speaker 1: schedules of yesteryear to the fascinating lives of those just

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Speaker 1: outside the limelight. We're going to uncover the forgotten pieces

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Speaker 1: of history you didn't know you needed to know. Listened

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Speaker 1: to The Backstory with Patty Steele twice a week on

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